The Best Looks from Paris Fashion Week: Spring 2014

Subtlety. It speaks volumes. While spectacle and theater have had the tired fashion herd in a tizzy, Christophe Lemaire quietly and effectively closed out the Spring 2014 season with a casual, luxurious, effortless Hermes collection. Why cause drama, his clothes whispered, when you can glide into a room looking like a million dollars without flashing it about?

Hermés

Hermés

Subtlety. It speaks volumes. While spectacle and theater have had the tired fashion herd in a tizzy, Christophe Lemaire quietly and effectively closed out the Spring 2014 season with a casual, luxurious, effortless Hermes collection. Why cause drama, his clothes whispered, when you can glide into a room looking like a million dollars without flashing it about?

Hermés

Hermés

The clothes took their cue from the lush hothouse botanicals they were set against. Foulard leaf prints—abstract and literal—were cut into loose skirts, roomy cinched dresses and oversized shirts. Meanwhile, dark green made a luxe statement done as a croc skirt or wrapped leather coat.